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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdɛ.zi.no/, (traditional) /ˈde.zi.no/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɛzino, (traditional) -ezino
- Hyphenation: dè‧si‧no, (traditional) dé‧si‧no
Verb
desino
- first-person singular present indicative of desinare
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Latin
Etymology
dē- + sinō
Pronunciation
Verb
dēsinō (present infinitive dēsinere, perfect active dēsiī, supine dēsitum); third conjugation
- to leave off, give over, give up
- Synonyms: relinquō, dēserō, omittō, dēdō, concēdō, dēcēdō, dēstituō, dēficiō, cēdō, linquō, addīcō, neglegō, remittō, permittō, tribuō
- to cease, desist
- Synonyms: dēsistō, absistō, cessō, omittō, remittō, mittō, quiēscō
- Antonyms: incipiō, exōrdior, ōrdior, īnfit
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 2.453–454:
- tū dēsine crēdere ventīs: perdidit illīus temporis aura fidem
- You cease to trust the winds: at that season, the breeze has lost trustworthiness.
Don't trust the winds: the breeze is unreliable that time of year.
(Ovid warns his readers about the weather in February.)
- to stop, end, close, make an end
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References
- “desino”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “desino”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- desino in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.